Cultivator



March 29, 1932. v s. SHEPPARD ET AL 1,351,650 I -CULTIVATOR 7 Filed 0ct 8, 1931 Mum mum" W-J.

IGIIIKIGIIIIIIIIIIIHJ Patented Mar. 29, 1932 ha rs stares PATENT oFricE CULTIVATOR Application filed October 8, 1931. Serial no; 567,702.

This invention relates to a cultivator adapted more especially for use in cultivating small areas.

One of the objects is to provide a wheel cultivator which has a handle so shaped as to allow the user to walk in the rear thereof and thrust thereagainst without trampling upon the row being cultivated.

Another object is to simplify and otherwise improve upon devices of this character.

With the foregoing and otl er objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction herein described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown. In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan View, the handle being broken away.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22, Figure 1.

Referring to the figures oy characters of reference, 1 designates an axle supported by wheels 2 and provided at its center with a small integral yoke 3. The forked upper ends 4 of standards 5 are arranged astride and are clamped to the axle near the respective sides of the yoke and journaled on the lower end of each standard is a disk plow 6 set at the proper angle to hill a row.

Additional spring standards 7 are clamped to the axle between the wheels and the diskplows and carry blades 8 for cultivating be tween rows.

The yoke 3 is extended upwardly between opposed stiff metal strips 9 which are parv ends 10 for lapallel and can have offset free ping the front edges of the sides of the yoke so that when the strips 9 are clamped to the yoke by transverse bolts 11 they will be held against movement relative thereto.

Intermediate portions of the strips 9 are offset obliquely as at 12, andthen merge into rearwardly extending parallel portions 13 which extend along opposite sides of an elongated handle 14 to which they are fastened by bolts 16. A spacing block 15 is secured between the oblique portions 12 to lend rigidity to the structure.

It will be noted that by mounting the handle as described it will be located at one side of but parallel with the center line of the cultivator. Thus, when the operator takes his position back 'of the handle'and thrusts thereagainst, he can walk forwardly without treading on the row being cultivated. The connection between the handle and axle is simple and eificient and allows for. easy assembly and disconnection of the parts.

What is claimed is:

1. A cultivator including a wheel supported axle having a yoke, rigid strips clamped at one end to opposite sides of the yoke, a handle secured to the other end of the strips,

intermediate portions of the'strips being off i set laterally along diagonal lines, and a spacer secured between the oflsetportions,

2. A cultivator including a wheel supported axle having an integral yoke, a handle, parallel strips secured at one end to one end portion of the handle, the other ends of the strips being extended to opposite sides of and engaging the yoke means for fastening the strips to the yoke, means on the operating with the yoke for holdingthem against relative rotation, the intermediate portions of the strips being ofls'et laterally along oblique lines, and a filler secured between said oblique portions.

- In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto affixed our signa- SAMUEL SHEPPARD.

tures.

OTTO BANKER.

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